[Translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Centre]

AFP fined 850 million tenge: Kazchrome comment, 16 June 2025

Kazchrome posted a comment...regarding the fine imposed on the Aksu Ferroalloy Plant (AFP) for exceeding atmospheric emissions...

...[T]he Committee for Environmental Regulation and Control of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported that the Aksu Ferroalloy Plant, a branch of Kazchrome...was fined 854 million tenge for exceeding the permissible limits for pollutant emissions...

It was also noted that the plant had paid the fine in full...